Bastard - As An Epithet

As An Epithet

  • Antoine, bastard of Burgundy (1421-1504), half-brother of Charles the Bold
  • Geoffrey, the Bastard, Geoffrey, Archbishop of York (c1152–1212), illegitimate son of Henry II, King of England
  • Bastard of Arran, Sir James Hamilton of Finnart (1495-1540), Scottish nobleman and architect
  • Bastard of Fauconberg, Thomas Neville (?-1471), a Lancastrian leader in the War of the Roses
  • Bastard of Orleans, Jean de Dunois (1402-1468), the illegitimate son of Louis d'Orléans
  • William the Bastard, King of England (1028–1087), also sometimes known as "William the Conqueror"

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